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Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made people of the setting sun a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.
Details
• Format Paperback | 174 pages
• Dimensions 135 x 206 x 18mm | 216g
• Publication date 01 Jun 1968
• Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Edition Revised
